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the two firms denied any such association to the chinese government. venezuela's leftist president hugo chavez will serve another six years after winning reelection sunday. his margin of victory was ten points, the narrowest in his 14 years in power. it was a bitterly fought race against challenger henrique capriles, who conceded defeat. chavez welcomed that concession last night, as supporters poured into the streets and surrounded the presidential palace. he addressed them from the balcony. >> my gratitude to the right wing candidate and his campaign managers who announced to the country that they recognize our victory. this is a very important step for peace in venezuela, for our coexistence. >> sreenivasan: chavez is expected to step up his push for socialism, and to continue his longstanding criticism of u.s. foreign policy. turkey retaliated again today for shelling coming from syria. it was the sixth day of cross- border strikes. the long-range skirmishes were sparked by syrian shells that landed in turkey last week, killing five civilians. imme
the two firms denied any such association to the chinese government. venezuela's leftist president hugo chavez will serve another six years after winning reelection sunday. his margin of victory was ten points, the narrowest in his 14 years in power. it was a bitterly fought race against challenger henrique capriles, who conceded defeat. chavez welcomed that concession last night, as supporters poured into the streets and surrounded the presidential palace. he addressed them from the balcony....
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federal government officials. the state department spokeswoman said the secretary would respond in writing this very day. >> her response is going to be relatively succinct today, as i said, expressing her complete commitment to work with the congress to get fully to the bottom of this. but i don't anticipate she'll be able to answer the specific questions today >> warner: the two congressmen say their committee will hold a hearing next wednesday on the libya attack. meanwhile the f.b.i. has sent a team to libya to determine just what happened. and secretary clinton named a review board to assess security arrangements at that u.s. consulate and others. and while the investigations proceed, the "new york times" reported today that the pentagon and c.i.a. are drawing up contingency plans to kill or capture those believed responsible for the killings. congressman issa's letter also congressman issa's letter detailed some 13 anti-u.s. and anti-western security incidents in the months leading up to the attacks. for mor
federal government officials. the state department spokeswoman said the secretary would respond in writing this very day. >> her response is going to be relatively succinct today, as i said, expressing her complete commitment to work with the congress to get fully to the bottom of this. but i don't anticipate she'll be able to answer the specific questions today >> warner: the two congressmen say their committee will hold a hearing next wednesday on the libya attack. meanwhile the...
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and because we're talking not about our local government, not even about the state government. it's feels as though we just don't have that ability to influence those events. >> that said, that the lawmakers in washington appear increasingly deaf to the realities of main street, was something we heard from nearly everyone here regardless of political party or oddology. we asked everyone whether they had confidence the federal government could help solve some of the country's most pressing issues. >> no i don't. i mean the state of colorado has-- here and we have a lot of faith in them. the overall government, no, i don't. >> i think they're so out of touch with what we actually do. who we actually are and how people actually live. we live payday to payday. and i used to get so happy if i paid everything. not if i had extra but if i paid everything. >> obviously are you a man of faith but how much faith dow have in our governmental institutions? >> government is so doggone dysfunctional. i am stunned at their inability to-- for basic communication skills it is as if they live in
and because we're talking not about our local government, not even about the state government. it's feels as though we just don't have that ability to influence those events. >> that said, that the lawmakers in washington appear increasingly deaf to the realities of main street, was something we heard from nearly everyone here regardless of political party or oddology. we asked everyone whether they had confidence the federal government could help solve some of the country's most pressing...
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you know, chinese government is a communist government. if the chinese government demands their citizens do something, they have to do it. we're very much concerned about that. we're also concerned too from a competition point of view that the chinese government is subsidizing these two companies. when huiwei can come and grow not only in the united states but throughout the world because their prices are so much cheaper, we're concerned about subsidy. that's not a clear playing field. my... go ahead. >> brown: i was going to ask you, you're planning to take this. you're taking this to the justice department for further action? >> what we do in intelligence is that we collect information and and a pliez the information. if we find any criminal act whatsoever, we turn it over to the justice department. that's a classified part of our report. there's a lot that we cannot say because we're the intelligence community. let me say this too. we want to make sure that we notify our citizens and our businesses in this country about a possible threa
you know, chinese government is a communist government. if the chinese government demands their citizens do something, they have to do it. we're very much concerned about that. we're also concerned too from a competition point of view that the chinese government is subsidizing these two companies. when huiwei can come and grow not only in the united states but throughout the world because their prices are so much cheaper, we're concerned about subsidy. that's not a clear playing field. my... go...
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but the, to turn to government for the answer-- government has been cutting jobs. we know that the government especially state/local governments continue to... continue to cut jobs. and i think obama, he mentioned well let's hire more teachers and that, that would certainly alleviate it but, i think a lot of people don't expect government to necessarily solve the jobs problem but it would be nice if government wasn't the job's problem. >> reporter: well, i'm glad you brought that up because one subject that jim lehrer did introduce which is kind of tough to talk about in that forum, even here is the role of government. both men were talking in a very highly contentious way and also in some aspects agreeing about government having a role in the day to day lives of americans. did that help? did that clarify anything? >> for me, it helped soften romney. to hear it right from the horse's mouth that he does believe in the role of government helping in day to day maybe not to the extent of obama does was helpful. >> i think that, you know, if we look at government in the
but the, to turn to government for the answer-- government has been cutting jobs. we know that the government especially state/local governments continue to... continue to cut jobs. and i think obama, he mentioned well let's hire more teachers and that, that would certainly alleviate it but, i think a lot of people don't expect government to necessarily solve the jobs problem but it would be nice if government wasn't the job's problem. >> reporter: well, i'm glad you brought that up...
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partly because there are no super organizations, governments, large n.g.o.s, other governments who are stepping in to try and help or fix or remove the situation. i think it's an issue that people in general don't seem to care enough about to bring about change. so if there is a way that we can say that everybody here in the world says that this is not something that should be tolerated, then i think people will take steps to eradicate it. >> woodruff: nick, in that connection i think in sierra leone you talked to one investigator who had looked at what, over a thousand cases, but in all of those cases there was only one conviction? how can that be? >> well because it simply is not a priority for the government. this is something that one can bring about change in. you know, we've seen it in congo. we've seen this in sudan that when there become penalties this patterns change. we've that in sex trafficking around the world. if authorities go after pimps then all of a sudden it becomes less lucrative less attractive to be a pimp. there are no magic bullets here but one thing we can do i
partly because there are no super organizations, governments, large n.g.o.s, other governments who are stepping in to try and help or fix or remove the situation. i think it's an issue that people in general don't seem to care enough about to bring about change. so if there is a way that we can say that everybody here in the world says that this is not something that should be tolerated, then i think people will take steps to eradicate it. >> woodruff: nick, in that connection i think in...
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the attack was on a government- controlled section. the coordinated explosions hit a central square, destroying a number of buildings and littering the streets with twisted metal and concrete. at least 122 people were wounded. and the death toll was expected to rise as crews work through the rubble. in iran, riot police and protesters came to blows over the collapse of the national currency. the rial has lost a third of its value in less than a week. today, merchants at tehran's main bazaar protested outside their stalls and closed for the day. exchange houses and currency websites also were closed down. in the end, police arrested money changers and fired tear gas to disperse crowds. the protesters charged president mahmoud ahmadinejad's policies have fueled the currency crisis. he has blamed western sanctions imposed against iran's nuclear program. secretary of state hillary clinton pledged anew today to get to the bottom of a deadly attack in libya last month. u.s. ambassador christopher stevens and three other americans were killed
the attack was on a government- controlled section. the coordinated explosions hit a central square, destroying a number of buildings and littering the streets with twisted metal and concrete. at least 122 people were wounded. and the death toll was expected to rise as crews work through the rubble. in iran, riot police and protesters came to blows over the collapse of the national currency. the rial has lost a third of its value in less than a week. today, merchants at tehran's main bazaar...
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i like less government. i like less governmental interference in our lives. >> ifill: colorado was once a reliably republican state. no more. the mobile, suburban voters of critical jefferson county supported george w. bush in 2000 and 2004, then barack obama in 2008. so in the campaign's final weeks, the candidates are targeting these fickle voters, again and again. jeffco, as the country is known, stretches more than 700 square miles along denver's western edge. three quarters of a million people live in the sprawling towns that hug the rocky mountain foothills-- one third of them democrats, one third republican-- and one third tied to neither party. maura fletcher, mother of an 11- month-old son, is part of that elusive third category. she, too, spent part of her weekend at the festival, promoting the chiropractic business she and her husband run. she said she is embarrassed she hasn't yet made up her mind. >> i'm not a political person. so i'm doing my research as to what candidate will best support me a
i like less government. i like less governmental interference in our lives. >> ifill: colorado was once a reliably republican state. no more. the mobile, suburban voters of critical jefferson county supported george w. bush in 2000 and 2004, then barack obama in 2008. so in the campaign's final weeks, the candidates are targeting these fickle voters, again and again. jeffco, as the country is known, stretches more than 700 square miles along denver's western edge. three quarters of a...
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, the state governmentç, the local government, theç tribes. you also have to work with the nonprofits, red cross, salvation army, many more. you have to bring in the faith- based community. it is huge what they are able to doç on a daily basis with a sml emergency. it may be in somebody's home unfortunately caught on fire. it is a disaster to them. ççwho is thereç during the dr for that family? it is the city. it is the red cross. the salvation army, the local church, synagogue,ç mosqueç, whatever. the faith based community is there to help the mountçç -- o help them out. when things are little bigger, who else is there? neighbors helping neighbors. ças it gets a little bigger, or even if it is a small house fire, in the neighborhoods of this city and neighborhoods across the country, if something çhappens, there is usually a local business that knows the family and been dealing with for a while and says that will help them out in some way or another. i remember last year i was traveling in the floods of north dakota. there
, the state governmentç, the local government, theç tribes. you also have to work with the nonprofits, red cross, salvation army, many more. you have to bring in the faith- based community. it is huge what they are able to doç on a daily basis with a sml emergency. it may be in somebody's home unfortunately caught on fire. it is a disaster to them. ççwho is thereç during the dr for that family? it is the city. it is the red cross. the salvation army, the local church, synagogue,ç...
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we're both incredibly pro government and incredibly critical of government. i don't see any contradiction in that. we need to embrace those contradictions. we need to say yes. we need government that works, and our government isn't working as well as it should right now. but if you can hold those two seemingly contradictory things together, then yeah, you do feel kind of patriotic. >> the impact is greater engagement. people have a sense that this is somebody else's problem. but it's our problem. we need to work on these solutions together, and it's not something that we can just hand off to government. >> if you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate. there is so much that citizens can do to communicate to their elected officials and to the bureaucrats that they interact with. you know what, we want you to try stuff. and it's really remarkable if you think about it in that context that how much we don't like a g
we're both incredibly pro government and incredibly critical of government. i don't see any contradiction in that. we need to embrace those contradictions. we need to say yes. we need government that works, and our government isn't working as well as it should right now. but if you can hold those two seemingly contradictory things together, then yeah, you do feel kind of patriotic. >> the impact is greater engagement. people have a sense that this is somebody else's problem. but it's our...
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we received more monies from the state government. last year our labor unions decided to contribute a quarter of a billion dollars to help balance last year's and this year's budget. those are things we do not have the ability to avail ourselves of us we balance the upcoming budget in a few months. we are faced with far fewer options. i think we are going to have to continue to look at very deep and difficult cuts. our priorities have to be insuring and protecting the most basic city services and helping to ensure that we have services to the most vulnerable during this great recession. >> what about the city's housing needs? what should the board due to address those needs? >> we are a city that is seventh by 7 miles. we have incredible density. we're the densest neighborhoods on the west coast. everyone wants to live here. that drives up housing prices dramatically. the housing costs are driving out working folks, families, the middle class. we need to continue to reinvest, to build, to develop, and maintain a troop stock of afforda
we received more monies from the state government. last year our labor unions decided to contribute a quarter of a billion dollars to help balance last year's and this year's budget. those are things we do not have the ability to avail ourselves of us we balance the upcoming budget in a few months. we are faced with far fewer options. i think we are going to have to continue to look at very deep and difficult cuts. our priorities have to be insuring and protecting the most basic city services...
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today's economic crisis notes good else he first could you explain to me in layman's terms what the government is doing to mend the economy and why you think it's not working well i don't think they're doing very much to mend the economy i think that their policies of made things worse. the sad fact is that the british economy has been shrinking slowly almost for a year now rather like a very slowly leaking balloon and the government of been trying in one or two small ways to give it a bit of a stimulus but i think they're quite new initiatives and it's too early to say how much effect they'll have but in general i don't think they will have very much effect and so i don't think at the moment they're doing anything very much to help because there's an awful lot of talk about prioritizing the economy and it's the main thing that we have to work on but then on the same time you say that not very much is being done at all one thing is that they're blaming everyone but themselves first of all it was it was the euro crisis then it was the high high commodity rise in commodity prices and so they cla
today's economic crisis notes good else he first could you explain to me in layman's terms what the government is doing to mend the economy and why you think it's not working well i don't think they're doing very much to mend the economy i think that their policies of made things worse. the sad fact is that the british economy has been shrinking slowly almost for a year now rather like a very slowly leaking balloon and the government of been trying in one or two small ways to give it a bit of a...
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so that is government money and we looking at it. and i'm glad that they agree that, for us to do this, that they agree to do it and not try to fight it. i won't say some of the things i know, but i know one thing, we need to shine a light on what's going on over there, and i appreciate the supervisors that brought this up. it's a good thing. any time you open up the light, it's like sunshine coming up in the morning. wakes us up. i appreciate it and hope you will go along with even them not going against it. thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you. you start off with the civil grand jury and end here too. it was a year ago in which the civil grand jury asked to you think about putting the ethics commission on television, and i think that has been a great success. i think probably your ratings are the highest you have ever had for sf gov tv. i encourage you to open us this agency including the sunshine task force. >> thank you. any additional public comment? public comment is closed. >> can we move this forward without objection? >>
so that is government money and we looking at it. and i'm glad that they agree that, for us to do this, that they agree to do it and not try to fight it. i won't say some of the things i know, but i know one thing, we need to shine a light on what's going on over there, and i appreciate the supervisors that brought this up. it's a good thing. any time you open up the light, it's like sunshine coming up in the morning. wakes us up. i appreciate it and hope you will go along with even them not...
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it's spent on propping up other governments. here we are funding funding fune insurgents in syria, and a quart of the insurgents are supposed to be al qaeda? didn't we do this in afghanistan? didn't we really ultimately bank role osama bin laden? we haven't learned anything. what we aught -- ought to have learned is military interventions make enemies to the united states of people that are affected by these. these drone strikes? yeah, we hit the target but we wipe out another quarter block. we kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians living in these countries that were ostensibly we're there to help? we're just continuing to make more and more enemies. it's no surprise that the unrest in the middle east is occurring right now. i would get out of our embassies in the middle east. why are we giving targets to demonstrators that are just looking for targets in the middle east? that is not showing weakness. it's showing we've got some common sense. where is the common sense? >> host: next call from lawrence, new york. eric is o
it's spent on propping up other governments. here we are funding funding fune insurgents in syria, and a quart of the insurgents are supposed to be al qaeda? didn't we do this in afghanistan? didn't we really ultimately bank role osama bin laden? we haven't learned anything. what we aught -- ought to have learned is military interventions make enemies to the united states of people that are affected by these. these drone strikes? yeah, we hit the target but we wipe out another quarter block. we...
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narrator: because original infrastructure investments were frequently subsidized by the federal government, water pricing was often calculated without accounting for the initial cost to build the systems. we made major investments in assets in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. and for the first 40 years of that pipe, there really may not have been many maintenance requirements. we're past that period now. narrator: water pricing based only on day-to-day operation, and not on planning for maintenance and eventual upgrades has resulted in a considerable repair and replacement backlog. allbee: on a national scale, if you looked at what we're spending now, and you looked at the additional investment requirements over the next 20 years, there's a $540 billion difference. man: so one of the greatest challenges is to reflect true value pricing. so that the citizens and businesses that rely on water and wastewater infrastructure systems are actually paying for it. narrator: cities and municipalities across the united states are now facing this funding gap, between projected revenue and projected expenses,
narrator: because original infrastructure investments were frequently subsidized by the federal government, water pricing was often calculated without accounting for the initial cost to build the systems. we made major investments in assets in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. and for the first 40 years of that pipe, there really may not have been many maintenance requirements. we're past that period now. narrator: water pricing based only on day-to-day operation, and not on planning for maintenance...
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cold start putting up with the government. go right on down running as we're about to leave the runway target u.s. navy f. eighteen super hornet. let's see now what the. there's you know we haven't seen or heard one all day i'm just going to build where and smoke us to purchase in search of safer territory. as randy finds something he's anxious to show us. the british anti tank. this is just one section this seems like five sections each searching has two of these things right here in it cool boom boom boom. that's right there that's all i got no whoever conduct this it's just going to get still gotta live on a little highly explosion some track off a tank it's like i live for one of the good balances and i'm also still kobolds oh my god. look at. the old i mean it's i don't touch that it's randy wants nothing to do with live explosives yet we can't help but think that other scrappers would. mean he. got a couple it's about us and them find. me a lot of. you know that's what causes the earthquakes. and. the bomb went off and t
cold start putting up with the government. go right on down running as we're about to leave the runway target u.s. navy f. eighteen super hornet. let's see now what the. there's you know we haven't seen or heard one all day i'm just going to build where and smoke us to purchase in search of safer territory. as randy finds something he's anxious to show us. the british anti tank. this is just one section this seems like five sections each searching has two of these things right here in it cool...
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make that governance less effective and what do you think of the majority government something many other countries rely on that a. partnership government has exhausted both its capacity and agenda it was necessary previous stages but not any longer right now everyone even the people of iraq feel that the regime of national partnership keeps our hands tied penders or development stands in the way of the breakthrough that what iraq could make in the development of infrastructure. services sector economic recovery we hear more and more voices now in our society and in parliament are calling for a shift to majority government to make parliament united can pass decisions and laws they would help to rule because right now the government that's paralyzed it can't do anything partnership originally built to pursue a major breakthrough has now degraded to a partnership the generates obstacles because of that we need a majority government and i am working hard to make it a reality both iraqi government and its citizens still suffer from regular terrorist attacks who's behind the violence int
make that governance less effective and what do you think of the majority government something many other countries rely on that a. partnership government has exhausted both its capacity and agenda it was necessary previous stages but not any longer right now everyone even the people of iraq feel that the regime of national partnership keeps our hands tied penders or development stands in the way of the breakthrough that what iraq could make in the development of infrastructure. services sector...
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we have a lot of government training programs. that is all fine and well, except there are 47 of them, and they report to eight different agencies. the overhead costs of all this burden and bureaucracy is killing. i want to take the money the federal government is spending on training, send it back to virginia, its fair share, and let virginia do what is right for the people of virginia. let me mention as my number four, to get this economy going and create more good jobs, let me mention something about the deficit. this idea of every year america spending and the federal government $1 trillion more than we take in is bad for our economy cannot also bad for the next generation. i think it is immoral to spend more than we take in. i will cut federal spending, cap federal spending, and i will get on track to a balanced budget. people ask me how i will do that, and i will cut out programs we do not absolutely have to have. number two, i will make sure some programs but go back to the state where they can be run more efficiently. we w
we have a lot of government training programs. that is all fine and well, except there are 47 of them, and they report to eight different agencies. the overhead costs of all this burden and bureaucracy is killing. i want to take the money the federal government is spending on training, send it back to virginia, its fair share, and let virginia do what is right for the people of virginia. let me mention as my number four, to get this economy going and create more good jobs, let me mention...